[7314] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Naming mailing lists
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Mon Jun 14 16:49:11 1999
To: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:26:18 EDT."
<199906142026.QAA09265@well.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:48:50 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
In message <199906142026.QAA09265@well.mit.edu>, "Jacob Morzinski" writes:
>People seem to be very willing to assume that "bug-sipb" is the
>address use to bug sipb with a general question. I'm beginning
>to wonder if it would be better to have a different list to use
>as a bug-reporting address. If there were something like, say,
>"sipb-bugs@mit.edu", people would be less likely to confuse the
>name of the list with a verb.
>
>Thoughts?
The convention bug-foo is pretty widespread to indicate bugs in foo.
I think it is more likely that there is an aberrant reference to
bug-sipb somewhere that should be found and excised.
People interested in seeing this mail go away or elsewhere should
probably be motivated to inquire of the folks who send the misdirected
mail and ask them where they found the address.
Under no circumstances should we allow the ignorance of the masses
to compromise our righteous moral ground with respect to
the naming conventions of mailing lists for bugs.
--jhawk
